...Anthony Kyiu; Edward Jones; Hao Li Purpose This study investigates the level of stock return synchronicity in African markets with the aim of establishing whether, contrary to conventional wisdom, stock return synchronicity can be low in countries with relatively weak information environments...

... factor. The authors test the alternative four-factor models. Design/methodology/approach The authors use stock returns data of BSE-500 listed firms for the Indian market, an emerging market, from 1999 to 2020, thus covering the post-Asian crisis and pre- and post-financial crisis (2007–2008) periods...

...Md Ruhul Amin; Andre Varella Mollick Purpose This paper aims to investigate how the relation between stock returns of US firms and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil prices is affected by leverage from 1990 to 2020. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines how the relationship between...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Stock markets Stock returns World economy National economy Factor analysis Returns in national stock markets exhibit strong interdependence (Jaffe and Westerfield, 1985 and Becker et al., 1992). Investors follow news closely on how...

... that performs a similar analysis for railroad accidents. Thomas J. Walker is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: twalker@jmsb.concordia.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Railway accidents Liability Stock prices Financial performance Stock returns Since...

...@mail.sdsu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Shares Stock returns Volatility Open market share repurchase is a major corporate payout method of publicly traded corporations in the USA. Open market share buybacks in the USA increased substantially in the 1990s, and continue...

... regressions to test the relative information content of EVA and other accounting measures and the incremental information content of EVA components in explaining stock return. Findings It is found that net operating profit after tax and net income outperform EVA and residual income in explaining stock...